Post by TOBY ALEC OLIVER on Apr 5, 2011 22:43:03 GMT -5
TOBY ALEC OLIVER
TWENTY ONE , LOVELY DESTRUCTION, LEAD VOCALS & GUITARIST, LONER, ANDREW VANWYNGARDEN, HOMOSEXUAL
TWENTY ONE , LOVELY DESTRUCTION, LEAD VOCALS & GUITARIST, LONER, ANDREW VANWYNGARDEN, HOMOSEXUAL
Hey, I'm Toby. Um... I'm twenty one, and I am the lead vocals and guitarist for the band Lovely Destruction.
Anyway, I'm a calm guy. I don't tend to go absolutely crazy, like, ever. I don't react to things dramatically, I'm just chill about everything. You could try and scare me, and I'd simply come back with 'oh.' but really, I could be scared shitless. I'm also a weird guy. I tend to say random, irrelevant things that just sound strange. People think I'm off in my own little world, but I haven't quite figured myself out yet. I say things casually, because that's what comes to me, so it's weird for me when people think of me as strange, because it's just who I am. I'm not really all that talkative around new people, because I'm shy, plus I'm awkward. I guess because I'm weird, I don't have a whole lot of friends, well, next to none, really. I guess you could stereotype that as a loner, because I just sort of walk around by myself. But I prefer that way, I guess. When people get to know me, they stop because I'm strange, and my perspective on things, life, is weird.
Anyway, I guess I'll let you know more about my personal life. I grew up as an only child, my parents made sure they didn't have another child because they knew there was no possible way they could support two children, let alone one. We lived in a two room apartment my whole childhood, but it wasn't that bad. I never liked big houses, anyway. I always imagined that if I had one, most likely half of it would be empty because there would be no way I could fill the whole place with my stuff. But yeah, my parents were on good terms for about five years after I was born, but after that they fought a whole lot.
We had money problems, which as a child my tiny brain that was just learning adding and subtracting had no idea what 'we can't afford anything' meant. It was pretty much downhill from there. My parents became stressed, especially when we had next to no food in our fridge or cupboards, relying on little things my dad picked up on the way home from work. But when I turned twelve, my mom left me and my dad because she couldnt handle it anymore. She left with a big bang, I like to call it. My parents fought, worse than before. She threw dishes, he begged, she screamed, he tried to stay calm. Then she left. Meanwhile, I laid curled up in my bed, my scrawny, tiny body hidden under a large black hoodie.
When it was all over, I quietly slipped out of my room, and out the door and I jumped on my bike and rode. I rode my bike around for quite awhile before I went home. I got there, and my house was quiet, it's funny, you remember the sound of the silence more than the fight your parents had. I didnt hear from my father until the next day, when he came out of his room. He tried to act like everything was okay, like she'd come back, but she never did. He got into serious drugs, and that's when I lost connection with other kids. I wasn't allowed to have anyone over because I spent my weekends making sure be didn't over dose. He tried to make sure I wasnt around when he did it, trying to send me away but I had nowhere to go. I had friends, well, a friend. But I stopped talking to him because he kept knocking on my door, and I didnt like that. I continued not to talk anyone a whole lot through out my school years. But I did enjoy playing guitar, it was a good pass time. Oh, and I liked to collect CDs.
Throughtout my life I was a fan of classical piano music, mostly because I found it very relaxing, especially playing it. It was a way to just get away from everything else, to go to my own world for once, and have the sound of the piano be my background music. I also had a thing for acoustic guitar, which is what I usually play during my live performances.
You're probably wondering why a shy and quiet guy like me would be able to perform in front of thousands of people, and really, I don't know myself. I don't even know why people like my music, they just do. But I guess it's because on stage it's different. It's not like they're narrowing down every little thing I do, they're just listening to me, that's all. I remember my busking days, too. I was more scared trying to get money in my highschool years, in front of a small amount of people, than I am in front of loads of new faces.
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